of Butterworth Hall, yeoman, afterwards of Glodwick, who died in 1783, and was father of Benjamin Dawson, of Manchester, gentleman (a relative by marriage of Sir Booth Gore, Bart.), and of Hannah Dawson, who married John Clegg, Esq., of Bent House, Oldham, and died 1813. Mary, the other daughter of Mr. Benjamin Dawson, married in 1747 the Rev. Henry Richardson, A.M., Rector of Thornton in Craven, son of Richard Richardson,Esq., M.D., F.R.S., of Bierley, near Bradford, a celebrated botanist, antiquary, and classical scholar, whose grandmother was a sister of Hopkinson, the eminent antiquary. Elizabeth Richardson, cousin of the father of the Rev. Henry Richardson, of Glodwick, married the Rev. Thomas Warton, father of Thomas and Joseph Warton, the distinguished poets. The Rev. Henry Richardson, who died 1778, was father of Richard Richardson, Esq., who died 1782, and of the Rev. Henry Richardson, Rector of Thornton in Craven, who took the name of Currer, on the death of his uncle John Currer, Esq., and married Margaret Wilson, a niece of Robert, Lord Clive; the issue of this marriage was the present Miss Frances Mary Richardson Currer, of Bierley, the owner of considerable property at Glodwick, the daughter-in-law of Matthew Wilson, Esq., of Eshton in Craven, and the inheritor of the literary taste and valuable library of her great grandfather, the eminent Dr. Richardson. The old family of the Hadfields, of Manchester and Mottram, possessed for many years some property at Glodwick. Samuel Hadfield, Esq., was one of the principal friends of that extraordinary self-taught genius, Lawrence Earnshaw, who died about 1764.

Clarksfield is the name of a large property situate on the eastern borders of the township, now divided into two estates, Lower Clarksfield and Higher Clarksfield. Lower Clarksfield, the original mansion, commands an extensive view of the vale of the Medlock, and a prospect of the Cheshire and Derbyshire hills, as well

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